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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Melody Schreiber

US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations

a toddler getting a vaccine
Ethan Turner holds his 14-month-old son, Niko, while he gets the MMR vaccine, in Lubbock, Texas, on 1 March 2025. Photograph: Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images

All vaccine recommendations are being reconsidered by the US’s vaccines committee, according to its top adviser, who in recent interviews slammed vaccination requirements for attending school and said vaccines should be taken on the advice of an individual’s doctor.

The stance from Kirk Milhoan, chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), represents a dramatic departure for the group tasked with making US vaccine recommendations for decades, signaling an increasingly hostile approach from the Trump administration to routine vaccines.

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